Moyse: Beginning the Flute

Hi everyone,

In this post I'm going to talk about a flute studies book by Marcel Moyse, and it's all about beginning the flute.

For any flute learners that are just starting out on the flute, but are interested in learning by a French method of learning but aren't too sure where to look. This might be a great book to start on. It's also a great starting point for you use if you want to start developing your flute tone.

Even though this is a flute study book aimed at beginners; it does touch on the third octave of the flute towards the end of the book.

It actually covers quite a lot, but it does it in an approachable way. It starts off by covering intervals, and then progresses onto exercises covering different registers of the flute, arpeggios ascending/ descending in different registers, and there's a couple of triplet exercises towards the end of the book.

What I really like about this book is that its approachable for a beginner flute player, and makes it really to understand what the aim is within each area of the book.

What you can also do is rather than work through the book as a whole; you can take an area or two that you are struggling with and use this book to help you to figure out with whatever area of your playing that you are struggling with. 

This is one book I would recommend that you pick up as a beginner flute learner, as you can use this along with other flute methods that your teacher has recommended. You can use this book as additional practice material to help you to improve in the early days of your flute playing and development. If you start to struggle with anything or your not too sure of something within this book I would recommend taking it along to your flute teacher, and get them to help you and maybe explain it a little better to you.